Improvement in manure-drag



J. D. HEEBNER. Manur Drag. No; 106,158. 1 Patented Aug. 9, 1870.

N4 PETERS, PHDTO LITHQGRAPHER, WASHINGYON. D. C,

- fdlated Sttte @wat @Wina JOSIAH yD@HEEBER, OF 'NORRIT'IONVILL I,PIIINNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND DAVID S. I-IEEBNER, OF SAME PLACE;

t Letters Patent No. 106,158, dated August 9, 1870.

, IMPROVEMENT 14N MANURE-DRAG.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent ad-makng-pat of the same.

To wllwlwm it may conce-rn Be it known that I, JOSIAHD. HEEBXER, of' Nori'ittonville, in the'count-y of' Montgomery and State 'of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Manure-Drag; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,- clear, and exact description o' the same, reference being -had to' the accompanying drawing making a part of this speciii'cation, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation ofthe invent-ion; and

Figure 2 isa plan of'the'same.

This linvention`\.ln1s for its object to effect the re- ,j

moval of manure from barns occupied by cattle, and lacking floors, such as are common in the Middle 'and Western States.

The. invention consists of a bar, provided with a sutliciency of metal teeth, projecting downward from one side, of proper dimensions for` the purpose, and furnished with handles like those of a plow, and with astandardprojecting upward, in combination with a beam, jointed `at its rear end to the top of said standard, and provided atitsfront extremity with a clevis,

to which to attach draft animals, and made int-wd sections, which are hinged together, the object of thislast arrangement .heilig to enable the operator to dump the. drag bypressing with' his foot on the rear end of the beannand thus throwing the joint upward. j i

In the drawingdis the bar;

b, the-teeth;

o, the handles;l

d, the standard;

e f, the two parts of the beam;

-the sections'ef that arenhinged together, and the bar A a advances, while the teeth are detainedvby the load until the bar ddraws lghe teeth ont of the load, and they rest in a horizontal position upon thesame.

On extending the two sect-ions e f into line again the drag is once more 4ready to take up a fresh load.

lInstead of a jointed beam, I may make use of a rigid beam', and cut a slot -in the standard d, and connect the beam and stand by a pin .passing through the slot.. This arrangement would anso-'er the same pill-pose.

Having thus described vmy invention,

Th-atl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-cnt, is-

'lhe combination of the drag a b with the standard d, andjoiuted beam ef, in the manner and for the purpose-specified.

Jo'sIAH D. .HEEBNER- Witnesses:

SoLoN C. KEMON, UHAS. A. PETTIT. 

